"Tamte dzieci potrzebują kobiety."

Translation: Those children need a woman.

[Walkinthedog]

Being a widower for seven years, I could use one also.

[ShaneCal]

At this stage I'm convinced that even Polish people don't know how Polish works

[Walkinthedog]

Sheeesh! No one promised it would be easy.

[Walkinthedog]

kobiete ?

[Jellei]

"potrzebować" takes Genitive.

But using Accusative with it is quite a common mistake among the natives.

[WellingtonCatnip]

These children need a woman should have been accepted

[jichaela0000]

tamte=those

[Sweetblue001]

I find sentence confusing. In english we would not say that those children need a woman. It makes it sound slighty slighty perverted. Maybe Those children need a mother or adult.

[ricardo.pa8]

Mistake here, its singular noun

[Jellei]

"kobiety"? Yes, "potrzebować" takes Genitive, so "kobiety" here is a Genitive singular form.

[KristineKruszer]

How do we know it's genitive? Are we supposed to memorize every verb and what case they take? Or is there a hint in the word?

[Jellei]

You need to understand which verbs take a direct object (Accusative) and which take an indirect object (Dative, which I believe you haven't encountered yet).

Then I'm afraid you actually need to memorize those verbs that take a direct object in Genitive, so they are exceptions to the usual rule. But not that many common verbs do that. This post lists such verbs in Part 8: https://forum.duolingo.com/comment/16569658 - only some of those are even taught in this course.

[Andy424538]

Sorry, but has everyone missed it??!!!! 10 letters for the polish word to mean need, which is only 4 in English. And then is spelt 8 different ways so far for meaning need!!!

[IanHector3]

So obviously stupid, what context would this make sense? Those children need a mother. Such a simple change far less stupid

[Jellei]

So just treat it as a vocabulary/grammar exercise. It's not a parenting course.

[BartLabuz]

Kobiety is plural woman is singular. This is an error.

[Latcarf]

"kobiety" is also genitive singular and the verb "potrzebować" requires the genitive. It's not an error.

[PonyDesu]

Just to make it clear, if it was plural, it would be "tamte dzieci potrzebują kobiet".